D.C. to OIW sub: Another streetcar, please

Washington, D.C.'s District Department of Transportation (DDOT) has ordered a third streetcar from United Streetcar, LLC, a subsidiary of Clackamas, Ore.-based Oregon Iron Works, at a cost of $2.9 million.

DDOT last April ordered two cars from United Streetcar for its H Street/Benning Road line in the city’s Northeast, at a cost of $8.7 million. The line is now under construction. DDOT also has three other streetcars already on the property, ordered from Ostrava, Czech Republic-based Inekon Group a.s.

Revenue service currently is projected to begin in the summer of 2013. A message on the distict's "dcstreetcar" website notes, "The District's streetcars will begin to be commissioned in December, ensuring that they're track-ready for their H/Benning arrival in 2013."